LUPC Legal Seminar
Employment and Commercial law
Tuesday 25th November 2014
Time:
Morning Session: Employment Law - 10.00am to 1.15pm (registration from
9.30am)
Enter the museum via the Staff and Visitor Entrance in Exhibition Road
(also signed The John Smith Flett Theatre) - this is the first small glass door
on your left when approaching from the junction with Cromwell Road and is
immediately before the public entrance to the Earth Galleries. You will be
met there and taken up to the Flett Theatre.
Afternoon Session: Commercial Law - 1.15pm to 4.30pm (registration and
lunch from 12.30pm)
Please enter via the Main entrance on Exhibition Road, and follow the signs
to the Flett Theatre which is on the first floor of the museum.
Venue:
Contact Details:
Flett Theatre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD
Suzanne Stokes, S.Stokes@lupc.ac.uk or 0207 307 2772
Agenda:
Registration
Tea/coffee
9.30-10.00
MORNING SESSION: EMPLOYMENT LAW
Welcome and introduction
Natural History Museum
Neil Greenwood
10.00 to 10.05am
Overview of the LUPC Legal Services
Framework
LUPC
Suzanne Stokes
10.05 to 10.20am
Essential employment law update
Looking at some of the recent developments,
and a look ahead at new developments:
• Family friendly changes such as flexible
working and shared parental leave
• The new sickness absence regime
• Zero hour contracts
• Whistleblowing
• Case update
Equality law round up: a review of the past
twelve months, looking at the key
discrimination cases and developments about
which employers and managers need to know
Eversheds
Nicola Bennison
10.20 to 10.50am
Farrer
Rachel Lewis and
David Hunt
10.50 to 11.20am
Break
Social Media use in the Public Sector
workplace: Is your reputation at risk?
Question and answer panel
11.20-11.40am
Michelmores
Tom Stenner-Evans
All legal services providers
on the LUPC framework
11.40-12.10pm
12.10-12.30pm
Refreshments and light lunch
12.30 – 1.15pm
AFTERNOON SESSION: COMMERCIAL LAW
Registration and light lunch
12.30-1.15pm
Welcome and introduction
LUPC
Andy Davies
1.15 - 1.20pm
Overview of the LUPC Legal Services
Framework
All change? The 2015 procurement rules and
their impact on the HEI and not for profit
sector
Trunki, Lush, and Amazon. The Intellectual
Property Act 2014 – What do the changes
mean for your organisation?
Break
Balancing privacy and commercial interests –
exploring the new Data Protection
Regulation
LUPC
Suzanne Stokes
Veale Wasbrough Vizards
David Hansom
1.20 - 1.35pm
Muckle
Alex Craig
2.10 - 2.40pm
How you need to adapt to new consumer
protection rules – Mills & Reeve will explain
when the new consumer rights legislation
applies and what it requires, discuss some of
the “grey areas” of the new legislation, and
give some practical tips on how to comply
Mills & Reeve
Paul Knight and Greg
Gibson
3.30 - 4.00pm
Question and answer panel
All legal services providers
on the LUPC framework
4.00 - 4.20pm
Martineau
Geraldine Swanton
1.40 - 2.10pm
2.40 - 3.00pm
3.00 - 3.30pm
Nicola Bennison, Eversheds
Nicola Bennison is a partner in the Eversheds’ Education Sector Group. Nicola has worked with
institutions in the HE sector for more than 20 years. Nicola regularly advises on employment law
matters, contentious and non-contentious, including claims for unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal,
whistle blowing and equality and diversity issues, particularly dealing with the management of
complex and sensitive internal grievances, and strategic HR issues. Nicola has particular experience
of dealing with termination arrangements for senior employees. Nicola is an experienced advocate
appearing in the Courts and the Employment Tribunal.
Nicola has spoken at a number of national conferences and at sessions offered by sector bodies such
as UCEA, AHUA, UHR, and AMHEC. Nicola has also spoken at commercial training events for the
sector and regularly presents to education sector clients as part of Eversheds’ national training
programme.
Rachel Lewis, Farrer
Rachel provides advice across a full spectrum of employment issues to a diverse range of
clients. She acts both for employers and for senior employees. Rachel has run significant
employment tribunal claims involving complex discrimination and whistleblowing issues, and also
has experience of mediation as an alternative to litigation.
She has particular expertise in large scale redundancy exercises and restructurings, and has a strong
pedigree in public sector work. She has won praise from clients and legal directories for her
pragmatism and the commerciality of her approach, focussing on finding effective solutions to
seemingly intractable problems. This fits with her track record of building up strong, long term
working relationships with her clients' HR and management teams, enabling her to understand and
add value to their business. Rachel also writes and lectures regularly on employment law issues.
David Hunt, Farrer
David advises a broad spectrum of clients from the museums, education, charity, sports and financial
services sectors on a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues. He has
acted for a number of leading national museums for many years and has also previously been
seconded to Imperial College’s HR team. He also acts for individuals in relation to contract and exit
negotiations and team move and restrictive covenant issues. Chambers and Partners comments that
David “impresses with his switched on style and an ability to grasp a large spectrum of facts quickly
in a thorough and detailed way”.
Tom Stenner-Evans, Michelmores
Tom is a Senior Associate in Michelmores' Employment team. He joined the Firm in 2007, and
qualified in 2009.
He specialises in employment law and divides his time between Michelmores' Exeter and London
offices. Tom has considerable experience in acting for public sector clients, including local
authorities and education-sector bodies.
Tom has broad expertise in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters,
with particular interests in social media and organisational restructuring. He has represented clients
in both the Employment Tribunal and County Court and is a member of the Employment Lawyers
Association.
David Hansom, Veale Wasbrough Vizards
David is an expert in public procurement law, where he advises public and private sector clients on
the full range of issues.
David has particular experience in advising in the education sector nationally. He guides schools,
multi academy trusts and universities through procurement aspects of a wide variety of transactions
including frameworks and complex purchases. He has particular experience in running competitive
dialogues, having been involved in over 20 such schemes. His team has advised on the first in sector
shared services procurement and David also regularly advises on procurement challenges.
He is an experienced trainer and regularly delivers training for clients/in house teams. David writes,
speaks and blogs regularly on public procurement issues.
He is ranked as a 'rising star' in London Super Lawyers 2013 and is a leading individual nationally for
public procurement in Legal 500. VWV's is Legal 500 regional public sector law firm of the year 2013
and Procurement Law Firm of the Year in 2013 for both Corporate INTL and Global Legal Experts.
Alex Craig, Muckle
Alex is a Partner in the Commercial Team at Muckle LLP, specialising in Intellectual Property work.
Alex manages a number of IP portfolios for clients, providing advice on IP strategy and capture as
well as protection, exploitation, management and assisting on enforcement matters. Alex has
assisted with the IP aspects of several commercialisations from leading universities, and is regularly
asked to advise on intellectual property due diligence matters both in transaction context and in
providing formal legal opinions. Alex is regularly involved in training across the IP field both in terms
of advising on pure IP matters and on IP related matters for example speaking at a workshop on IP in
the construction industry. Alex has worked inhouse with a regional pharmaceutical business during
a period of substantial growth, and is active in supporting the creative sector acting as director for
ISIS Arts Limited, an international creative not for profit arts organisation.
Geraldine Swanton, Martineau
Geraldine has been advising universities and colleges for 15 years. That advice has spanned a very
broad range of student-related issues, in particular equality, discipline, human rights and contractual
matters, as well as constitutional, charity and information law. Geraldine has also worked in
education institutions in the UK and overseas and has, as a result, a keen understanding of the
context within which her advice is provided. Geraldine is also a college governor.
Greg Gibson, Mills and Reeve
Greg is a partner in our Commercial team and has been with Mills & Reeve for over 10 years. He has
extensive experience, gained both in-house and in private practice, of drafting and negotiating a
wide range of commercial, outsourcing and procurement agreements. Greg also advises regularly
on e-commerce, data protection, freedom of information, competition law and other regulatory
issues. Recently, Greg has been advising an executive agency of the government on the impact of
the Consumer Contracts Regulations.
Paul Knight, Mills and Reeve
Paul’s work covers a range of intellectual property, information technology and commercial
issues. Paul advises regularly on issues about websites, apps, software licensing and IT
services, procurement, terms and conditions, service provision, media agreements, and partnership
funding through grants or sponsorship. Paul has worked with a number of charities to help them
identify the consumer contracts they enter into and to update their online sales processes in light of
the Consumer Contracts Regulations.